weevil
英 ['wi?v(?)l; 'wi?v?l]
美['wivl]
- n. [昆] 象鼻蟲
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?weevils;
中文詞源
weevil 象鼻蟲
來自PIE*webh,編織，穿梭，快速移動，詞源同weave,web。原用于指各種小甲蟲，后特別指象鼻蟲。
英文詞源
- weevil
- weevil: [15] Old English had a word wifel ‘beetle’, but this appears to have died out, and weevil was probably borrowed from Middle Low German wevel. Both words had the same ultimate origin, however: prehistoric Germanic *webilaz. It is not clear whether this was derived from the base *web-, *wab- ‘weave’ (source of English weave ‘make cloth’ and web), in which case the weevil would be the ‘weaving’ creature; or from the base *web- ‘move quickly’ (source of English weave ‘move in a zigzag way’, whip, etc), in which case it would be the ‘quick mover’.
- weevil (n.)
- Old English wifel "small beetle," from Proto-Germanic *webilaz (cognates: Old Saxon wibil, Old High German wibil, German Wiebel "beetle, chafer," Old Norse tordyfill "dung beetle"), cognate with Lithuanian vabalas "beetle," from PIE root *webh- "to weave," also "to move quickly" (see weave (v.)). The sense gradually narrowed by 15c. to a particular kind of beetle that, in larval or adult stages, bores into plants, often destroying them.
雙語例句
- 1. The weevil is a shiny, cylindrical beetle.
- 象甲科害蟲是一種發(fā)光的圓柱形甲蟲.
來自辭典例句
- 2. If you had the pluck of a weevil in a biscuit , you would catch them still.'
- 你們只要有干面包里的蟲子那樣的膽量, 就一定能抓住他們. ”
來自英漢文學(xué) - 金銀島
- 3. Farm demonstration work in the South helped to fight the cotton boll weevil.
- 南部農(nóng)場示范工作大大幫助了對棉花象鼻蟲的防治.
來自辭典例句
- 4. The rice weevil is a good example of the high reproducibility of some grain insect species.
- 米象是一些谷物昆蟲中繁殖能力強的典型.
來自辭典例句
- 5. Pest infestation also easily occurs, mainly rice weevil and corn weevil, etc.
- 害蟲感染也易發(fā)生, 主要感染的害蟲有米象和玉米象等.
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